Árheimar
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Árheimar (Old Norse "river home") was a capital of the Goths, according to the Hervarar saga. The saga states that it was located at Danparstaðir ("Dnieper stead"), which is identified with the ruins of , near Kamianka-Dniprovska in southern Ukraine .
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Árheimar (Old Norse "river home") was a capital of the Goths, according to the Hervarar saga. The saga states that it was located at Danparstaðir ("Dnieper stead"), which is identified with the ruins of , near Kamianka-Dniprovska in southern Ukraine .
== Hervarar saga == thumb|A scene from the Hervarar saga, Orvar-Odd and Hjalmar bid each other farewell, by [[Mårten Eskil Winge (1866).]] The name first appears in the Hervarar saga when Angantyr has avenged his father Heidrek and retaken the Dwarf-cursed sword Tyrfing: